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You Can Only Understand What You Can Only Understand

If you’ve ever had a furry friend, you will understand how you think of them as human. Sure, you know they are a cat or a dog or a whatever. But, in your mind, you see them through the eyes of a human and relate to them the same way as you do to other people.
 
If you’ve ever had a furry friend, you will understand how they love you the best way that they can love you. They relay to you loving messages, or tell you what they want or need via the methods they have at hand, be they a cat, a dog, or a whatever. They probably know you are something different from them, but all they can do is be what they can be. And, from that, they interact with you via the mind that they possess.
 
Here’s the thing about life, you can only understand what you can only understand. You can only be what you can be. The problem arises when people try to project what they understand onto others. The problem arises when someone believes what someone else is thinking or doing is wrong. But, how can that be? That person is operating from the space they are operating from. They are living their life via the way they know how to live, and think, and do. They are doing an endeavor from the space that they are based upon and that they understand. And, here’s the catch, they are it, they understand it, but you, (or anyone else), is not that, you are not them, so, in all truth, you don’t get it at all. You can never be what they are. You can never know what they know. You can never truly understand what they are living. You can try to interpret it. But, that’s all that is, an interpretation. It is not who or what they are.
 
Think about this the next time you are thinking that someone else is wrong. Think about this the next you don’t like what someone else is saying or doing. Think about this the next time you judge.
 
You can love your furry friend. You can provide for them the best life that is possible. But, no matter how much you project onto them that they are something other than what they are, that is not/that is never is what they are truly are.
 
Let all things be what all things are. Let them exist in their own perfection. With this, the world becomes a much better place.